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To ensure South Africa benefits from world-renowned technology, South Africa’s licenced Central Securities Depository (CSD) Strate has entered into an agreement with REGIS-TR, the European Trade Repository owned by Clearstream and Iberclear, to assist in the development of a local trade repository in accordance with South African regulatory ...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, great concern was expressed over the lack of transparency and risk management of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, which many believed to be one of the fundamental causes for the events which placed the world on the brink of financial turmoil. As a result, much regulation has been ...

Since signing binding agreements with Clearstream to explore and use their Collateral Management services on a white labelled basis for South Africa, there has been growing interest in this service in the local market. Through various engagements with potential interested parties, Strate has received valuable feedback and is currently working ...

Since its inception over ten years ago, Strate Ltd is proud to be the licensed Central Securities Depository (CSD) for the electronic settlement of financial instruments in South Africa.

Strate's core purpose is to mitigate risk, bring efficiencies to the South African financial markets and improve its profile as an investment destination. Strate is aligned to international best practices and continually strives to ensure operational excellence and provide enhancements for the good of the Southern African financial markets.

Strate handles the settlement of a number of securities including equities and bonds for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) as well as a range of derivative products such as warrants, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), retail notes and tracker funds. It has now added the settlement of money market securities to its portfolio of services. It provides services to Issuers for their investors in terms of the Companies Act and Securities Services Act (SSA), 2004.